Cén scéal?

What's the story? · Kayn shkayl

Cén scéal? means What's the story?, and is said Kayn shkayl.

Word for word

Taken literally it reads What story. Irish often puts a sentence together differently from English, so the literal reading rarely matches the meaning.

How to say it

Say it Kayn shkayl, written the way an English speaker would read it.

When you’d say it

The Irish for what's the craic. Aon scéal, any story, does the same job. Scéal is the same word that gives scéalaí, a storyteller.

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